[datahub-discuss] Help required

Fri Apr 10 20:03:16 UTC 2015

On 10 April 2015 at 20:14, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Michel,
>
> As I've just taken a position building repositories for large biomedical
> data (based on iRods and Cassandra), I suspect my employer wouldn't take
> lightly to me contributing to something that could be seen to be
> competitive :|
>

Have you asked ;-)

> I'll leave it to Rufus, Steven et al to arrange and take it forward. I'm
> sure a community call to help save Datahub would be a really good idea
> though.
>

I don't think we need to save it :-) but I think it would be great to
arrange a community call on this.

Rufus

> Regards
>
> Ross.
>
>
> On 10 Apr 2015, at 17:12, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Ross,
>   I would be interested in an advisory role, and promoting this resource
> as a solution as a repository for the biomedical community. I might suggest
> that we organize a call to take a full account of interest, and see if we
> can divvy up the responsibilities.
>  Cheers!
>
> m.
>
> Michel Dumontier
> Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Stanford
> University
> Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest
> Group
> http://dumontierlab.com
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Ross Jones <ross at servercode.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As I've recently changed the direction of my career, and will no longer
>> be working with Open Data and/or CKAN - datahub.io will need some help.
>>
>> I'm unlikely to have time to spend creating new organizations for
>> Datahub.io, and as it stands, unless somebody steps up to agree to help out
>> in creating them I can only imagine it'll slowly grind to a halt, with
>> longer and longer delays in getting organisations approved.
>>
>> It would be a real shame for datahub, which was the original CKAN, to be
>> in a situation where nobody has time to help and keep it ticking over -
>> even just ticking over is a shame, it'd be better if somebody had the time
>> and motivation to actively improve it ... so if you do have some time to
>> spare, or were considering stepping up to volunteer, now is the time.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ross
>>
>>
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